The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, recent news, and guest interviews.  

Thanks to our guest:
https://twitter.com/pete_winn of https://bitcoinforhumans.com

Host:
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au


Notes

- Beach swims and bouldering

- Pete's history before discovering bitcoin

- Sound versus unsound ladders

- Corrupt intermediaries eroding aid money for humanitarian causes

- Sound money is anti-corruption money

- Community is an important part of the solution

- Scale of organisations is a significant part of the problem

- What would a bitcoin bank be like?

- Who'll build the roads with no or less government?

- Morals and acceptable behaviour conforms to the rules of the game being played

- It's not about the left or right - there's a vertical liberty line too

- Starting and working on bitcoin education (https://bitcoinforhumans.com)

- Local institutions are key to a bitcoin solution (e.g., community-level banks or currency exchanges)

- Investing back into the community (in cash flow businesses), while storing long-term wealth in bitcoin

- Good money allows specialisation and division of labour

- Focusing career/vocation on education, exploring ways to generate dividends from bitcoin, helping people start with bitcoin and custody their keys

- Educating people early is important, because the shitcoin allure can be very distracting

- Shitcoins are a metaphoric eclipse attack on pre-coiners

- Orange pill strategies: understanding their position and identifying the problem

- What's the thing you're most disappointed about in life? 

- Being a fiat debt slave

- Nobody really knows what they're doing

- Living in a super capitalist cult with a clubhouse in the middle

- Figuring out where to stand in an earthquake and teaching others to think the same way

- Currency and debt catastrophes are escalating

- Deflation is a good thing, except for in a debt-based economy

- It's impossible to measure and organise a complex system using a linear or flawed unit of account (e.g., GDP, CPI)

- Decentralizing power and building local small businesses and institutions will be the key to a hyperbitcoinized world

- It's still early to change to a bitcoin vocation

- Using CFDs with DLCs to smooth out bitcoin price volatility

- Being unbanked blocks people from society

- Censorship-resistance and permissionless are two of bitcoin's most important qualities

- Bitcoin is a mirror that encourages you to figure out a better moral framework

- Becoming an anarchist in a polo shirt

- Bitcoiners are generally a valid and reliable sounding board

- Preparing for the citadel building stage

- Statism is based on a logical fallacy

- Central planning cannot work in an emergent system

- Voluntaryism and anarchism are a more dynamic and responsive way to organise society

- Get involved in bitcoin - just dip your toe in!